The AI studies your habits to help make the device more energy efficient and save battery. It's also used to improve photography. It is used to study your voice characteristics so that you can whisper in a noisy crowd and still make phone call. All this and more can be done to create a data base on the person. They are working with google advance AI.

Btw, I like the finger print scanner on the opposite side of screen. Then you can open the screen one handed. But they missed the boat on that one. They put it back on the front. On the Mate 9 the fps is on the back. Second, once the screen is on the sensor for the fps doesn't do anything. They should give it another function like opening or closing an app.